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...Christopher Taylor Taylor reads Herman Melville's Moby-Dick (1851) through the history of the captured prosthetic limb of Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna. U.S. travel narratives, soldiers' accounts, and P. T. Barnum's 1847 display of the captured prosthesis in his American Museum...

... rising generation of Chicana activists, highlighting how the absence of young men from Mexican families laid bare the gender dynamics of family life. Véa's and Santana's novels revise familiar narratives of the Chicana/o movement, calling attention not to the way the movement was parochial and sexist...

... Narration . New York : Routledge . Dower John . 1986 . War without Mercy: Race and Power in the Pacific War . New York : Pantheon Books . Fagan Brian . 1987 . The Great Journey—The Peopling of Ancient America . London : Thames and Hudson . García Mario . 1989 . Mexican...

... pageant. Taking place in a foundational text of pre–Chicano- movement Mexican American literature, this performance could fit into either an assimilationist or cultural nationalist teleology of sub- ject formation. In an assimilationist narrative, Guálinto’s performance would reveal the...

... tensions more directly than they do to an anti-Mexican racism” (20). Rodríguez’s book nevertheless distinguishes itself by crafting an alterna- tive “American” literary history that includes Mexican and Mexican Ameri- can writings. Prieto and Pizarro shore up Rodríguez’s point that the war fos...

... language skills and relationships to foreign academies and archives if they are to produce rigorous transnational scholarship. The U.S. ethnic and postcolonial links that Aldama explores stem from his own experience. Born to a Mexican-Guatemalan family in California’s north-central valley, the young...

... purist, homopho- bic, and racist attitudes and ideologies in Mexican American commu- nities. Whereas these first two (published) novels are semiautobio- graphical, with clear parallels between Islas and the main character (Miguel Chico) and between Islas’s family and the family depicted in...

... sometimes naïve assumptions about ethnic authenticity. The Movement might be characterized as a collection of disparate regional and national efforts to improve conditions for Americans of Mexican descent in the United States...

..., 847–50. Rodriguez, Richard T. Review: Guidotti-Hernández, Unspeakable Violence: Remapping US and Mexican National Imaginaries, 197–99. Review: López, Chicano Nations: The Hemispheric Origins of Mexican American Literature, 197–99. Schober, Regina. “Transcending Boundaries: The Network...